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Downloaded this version on a new machine. The rackspace option gave an indication that something is different.And it was...It seems not to work anymore.Trying to back up my C:\Documents and Settings\user dir produces just "The system cannot find the file specified" errors. Looks like a file path error somewhere.

Hey Andrea - I haven't seen this problem myself, but someone else reported it in the past. See the comment from Xavierdes at http://thebackupmonkey.blogspot.com /2008/10/updates.html, explaining where he found the files. Let me know if that doesn't solve your problem.

I was able to find the files. But I don't want to try again to get Bonkey to work without knowing why it happened. What would stop it from eating all the space on my hard drive again?

I've tried to fix the java heap message, but the fix described on the site doesn't work. Because of that, I just keep breaking my groups down into smaller chunks, but I'm still running into problems, such as eating my Mac hard drive space.

Bonkey does exactly what I'm looking for. I just haven't had luck running it yet :-(

Hi Andrea - that's fair enough. One of the limitations I have when developing it is that the only Mac I have access to is from work, and I can't use USB with it, which makes this issue difficult to test. Just for everybody else, can you explain where you found the files?

Regarding heap space, my next challenge is to improve the memory handling so that Bonkey can handle bigger backups. Until then, I'm afraid you'll just have to work around it.

When I check if anything happened on the server I see that a new directory called "Documents" (yes, the file name includes the quotes) has been created in the root of my FTP share and nothing is in the remote_backup folder I set as the URI.

Is there a special trick to getting this to work or is my webhost just not playing nice?

Thanks for the feedback. I'm having a tough time with FTP - it works fine with the FTP server I've setup here, but a number of folks have reported issues. Ping me at thebackupmonkey at the mail run by Google and let me know what OS you're on, and I'll send you a test version and see if it solves your problem.

Hi Gareth - FTP support is unfortunately flaky. I've been having a lot of trouble getting it right. There's a release candidate at http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonkey/setup_rc.exe - please try it out and let me know if it solves the problem for you.

bonkey, I had similar problems with FTP, namely the fact that I couldn't seem to specify the remote directory (my FTP user game access to /, and I wanted my files in /httpdocs). I ended up editing my /etc/httpd file to respecify the root directory of my FTP user but then Bonkey was adding quotes around all the remote directory names. The RC linked above seemed to fix this. Thanks a ton for the awesome software! My only other complaint is that I can't make one of the folders on my computer be the root directory of a backup, for example if my backup is named "My Backup" and I want to backup C:\folder to D:\Folder Backup, my files end up in D:\Folder Backup\My Backup\folder.

Hi. I'm new to bonkey. Set up a couple of backup groups. One is designed to back up the documents folder on my mac (a relatively small folder) this works fine. My second group is my pictures folder, which is large due to .nef files. Im trying to just copy the nef files. I tell it to run manually, and it goes what seems to be all the way through, but at the end says 'Could not determine the type of file "smb://eeepcfs/backupfolder".' "smb://eeepcfs/backupfolder" is the path of the network share i am trying to write to (on ubuntu). As I say, my documents folder goes fine, and the files appear to all have copied for my photos, but then this error appears. Any ideas? I'd really appreciate your help.

Hi...i've been using Bonkey for 2 weeks. Everything was working fine until today when I cant do my backup anymore. The error is "An internal error occurred during: "Run now".java.lang.NullPointerException" Tried to update Bonkey but no success either. My Bonkey version is 3.4.1. Can you help? Thanks!

I am trying to get bonkey working with mac osx. I have an ftp server setup at home that is functioning fine with my windows machines but when i try to setup an ftp backup of my dad's macbook pro it says can not create the directory. It actually does create a folder on the server but doesn't put anything in the folder.

Rene saidI just started using Bonkey Monkey yesterday. I was able to upload to S3 sevweral backup groups. However there is 1 group I can't upload. The error is "An internal error occurred during: "Run now".java.lang.NullPointerException" Can you help? Thanks!